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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by tdeck on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:07PM (#41560148)
It's all relative and I imagine there is more startup energy/funding here than in Madison, it's just not pervasive like it is in SF. Also we as an industry seem to be heading into a funding trough, only AI promises are keeping the bubble afloat.
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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by packetlost on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:18PM (#41560292)
> I imagine there is more startup energy/funding here than in Madison

Probably, but also costs are quite a bit lower (they're much closer to Denver CoL if you can believe that). We have a pretty good amount of startups and a lot more "bigger" non-tech companies than you'd expect.

I agree on the funding trough, but I think that's really the macro-economics at play. Midwest is pretty well shielded from that, so I'm kinda happy I'm here for the time being.

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